He’s always been a wolf in sheep’s clothing (or rather a rabid wolf in police-trained German Shepard’s clothing). Loads of controversial and repugnant behavior before his time in congress. I think he pulled a gun on a black person jogging through his neighborhood.

Chat, is it cringe to not want potentially debilitating diseases to spread through your community?

Ooo owie I’m having a heart attack!!!

~1/3 of gen z are doing some kind of new autosex thing that is somehow not masturbating but would cause everyone over 30 to have a heart attack if they even heard about it.

Inquiring minds want to know!!!

“Damn, what the GOAT up to now?”

Say no to vehicle exhaustion. Say yes to heat exhaustion.

It’s a funny art joke. That’s the funny part.

Oh ok

I agree mostly. I guess what I’m trying to say is that bluesky comment seems to believe this bill is entirely propped by conservative talk radio, as if conservative talk radio is not part of a much broader reactionary web of special interests. That notion skirts how disproportionately small the impact of AM radio is to the broader conservative movement, which has modernized considerably with podcasts and the like. I can understand legacy tech manufacturers lobbying to have AM receivers installed in car. That makes sense. But you’d think that a conservative talk radio lobby would also be lobbying Congress to require new cars to have WiFi or 5G receivers.

To me, it seems if lobbyists proposed this legislation then they probably made some salient points about public safety, to the chagrin of auto manufacturers. Yes, sports and conservative AM talk radio would be the main benefactors of this bill. But it reads less like a clever conspiracy to inject conservativism into everyone’s cars and more like regular ass law that keeps an associated dying industry alive for a while longer.

Guess everything was better when every woman was barefoot and pregnant, right?

But seriously, what the hell is this analysis? Women have always been a part of the labor and productive forces. Do you think women existed solely in a state of domesticity before fighting for the right to vote in the US? This entire argument rests on the notion that capital is the driver of social change. I guess you might not know that people can react to their material conditions just as much as capitalists can react to people. Like there’s some kind of…oh I don’t know, a dialectical relationship between these forces.

Lol that second bluesky is so ass.

A growing number of automakers, including BMW, Rivian, Tesla, and Volvo, have moved away from the century-old broadcast band in favor of software-defined vehicles that offer streaming services like TuneIn and SiriusXM.

Yeah, big AM radio has more pull than SiriusXM. All those emergency weather alerts are raking in the cash.

Kind of a shame you don’t have an Aviato sticker, just saying.

And I always knew I’d have a reason to hate Ed Sheeran for more than just his music.

Can’t believe it’s already 1 AK

This is the most opportune time to spit theory at him. Make a concerted effort and think critically what’s going to get through to him. I’ve had too many friends on the brink of socialism go back to liberalism or even (in the case of one friend) fall head over heels in fascism. Without some kind of scientific/theoretical basis, radicalization just vibes. And don’t forget to model self-critique for them.

Naval assets getting destroyed? No.

Naval assets getting YOINKED? Yes.

I’m happy you will have stable housing for the foreseeable future. From your previous posts, I wouldn’t say you romanticized homeless per se. I agree that your general attitude toward becoming unhoused was naive.

The overwhelming majority of people who are unhoused are not unhoused by choice. Consider yourself fortunate that your material circumstances have allowed for you to return to your home. I’m not trying to put a moral burden on you or obligating you to show gratitude to your parents. Though I am obligating you to use your material circumstances in a productive way to further the struggle of us as workers. Commiserating with a bunch of commies online is great and all. But like a lot of us say all the time, find ways of organizing around you. Join a PSL or DSA chapter, join protests against data centers or flock cameras or whatever the oppressive dejour is. Remember that any type of organizing is better than nothing. Book clubs, soup kitchens, running groups, quilting circles, anything. The important thing is building a foundation of community on top of which further labor and political organizing can be built.

I’m not trying to belittle your circumstances either. You’ve mentioned in the past how working for your parents’ business is a non-starter. Can you explain why that is? Can you envision a way of leveraging this opportunity for your benefit? (Not merely as a resume builder or networking opportunity, but as a means to fund yourself and exercise skills that are useful in other ways, such as organizing)

Actually this is very clever and based moved for Google. Notice how they only labeled the American side of the lake ‘America’? Checkmate, Drumpf.

The only “smart” feature that I find useful is an equatorial gear/mechanism. It turns your telescope with the rotation of the earth (or fancier ones can be set to turn with the earth plus another movement so you can track objects like the moon). Just look for that.

Camera mounts, specific lens, and filters can be great additions. None of those things are “smart.” Here’s a photo I got of the lunar eclipse the other night. I didn’t use an equatorial mount or filters because I was rushing and didn’t want to set it all up, just a camera mount, so I apologize for the quality.

I was looking at your other posts, and I’m excited for you taking on this medium. To me, oil pastels are fickle. I’ve never been able to get a good grasp on them. While you’re juggling how each color blends, you also have to judge how much pressure to use and how the layers of pastel interact. They are much more similar to oil paints in that way than drawing. I mean they are essentially frozen oil paints anyway.

So hey, imma say some shit about this piece because I’m too much of an art teacher to stop. All of this comes from love and admiration for you putting your work out there for others to see. That being said, I think there’s some interesting stuff going on here. There’s a bit of searching in the lower left swatch one, a little smudging at the top left of it, maybe an attempt at blending, that gives off a bit of unfamiliarity with the medium. A similar thing is going on with the tree, where the branch on the left becomes more vibrant as it interacts with the darker color underneath (it’s the white acting as a glaze over the navy). The base of the trunk is left kind of scumbled or unarticulated, which gives in an ungrounded feel, as if it’s anchored to the paper by only its branches and that flower. Im not trying to just critique your technical application of the pastels. I’m wondering if the poem this piece was based on would be illuminating to some of your choices. Is there a theme like that in the poem? Or perhaps I’m detecting a through-line of unfamiliarity, with both the medium and the poem, that deserves further investigation.

I would strongly suggest sitting down and really thinking critically about what you like about this piece and how your execution is informed by both the poem and the application of oil pastels. Ask yourself what you think is successful and why. And then replicate it. Again and again, until one piece feels no more precious than another.